Sales Guy v Web Dude

This is good. (Video.)

Food fight

Food Fight is an abridged history of war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination in this chronologically re-enacted smorgasbord of aggression.

Related:

• Food Fight home page
• Food Fight cheat sheet: identifying the foodstuffs

Hat tip: Popbitch

...but dammit, Chap had this at his place a couple of weeks ago, and I'm just catching up.

Gapminder

Gapminder is a non-profit venture developing information technology for provision of free statistics in new visual and animated ways. Goal: enable you to make sense of the world by having fun with statistics. Method: turn boring data into enjoyable interactive animations using Flash technology. Gapminder is a Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. Funding has been mainly by grants from Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida. In collaboration with United Nations Statistic Division Gapminder promote[s] free access to searchable public data and all animations of different types of data are freely available at www.gapminder.org.

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You gotta get hot to play real cool

Okay, now.

If you are a small child, or if you are a jazz fan, or dear sweet Mother of God, if you are a jazz fan with small children, you need to watch this classic Looney Tunes short.

Right. Now.

It's called "The Three Little Bops," and it just goes to show you what can happen when you give three hip cats like Friz Freleng, Shorty Rogers and Stan Freberg a sufficient budget. (Full credits here, courtesy of IMDB.)

Real gone, man.

Hat tip: Pistol Wimp.

Update: And Chap hips us (in the comments) to a link to the Tom and Jerry classic, "Solid Serenade," from the 1940s.